Talk:All My Ex's Live in Texas

[sic]

[sic] in the lead is gratuitous and unnecessary. Get off your high horse. It's a pop song (subgenre country). You don't have to explain the spelling or be condescending. Let it stand as is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.154.250.254 (talk) 02:35, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

I removed "[sic]" from the title of the article.

I looked for a Wikipedia policy on this and couldn't find one, so I checked other articles about creative works with misspelled titles and bands with misspelled names. The articles on Pet Sematary, Boyz n the Hood, Inglourious Basterds, Led Zeppelin and The Beatles all reproduce the subject's name without a "[sic]" notation, presumably because, in context, it's obvious that the article is reproducing the subject's name accurately and therefore a "[sic]" notation is unnecessary.

This is also the case where there might be more ambiguity about whether a misspelled or ungrammatical title was intentional, and where there's at least a chance a reader might attribute the "error" to Wikipedia. For example, the articles for Law Abiding Citizen and Two Weeks Notice both reproduce the ungrammatical title without a "[sic]" notation.

Since using a [sic] in this context seems inconsistent with general Wikipedia practice, and since it seems obvious, in context, that the song title is spelling "ex's" colloquially, I don't think the "[sic]" should be added back. If the spelling of the song title is of interest, and there's a source out there discussing why that spelling was used, it can be addressed in the body of the article (e.g., both the Led Zeppelin article and the Inglourious Basterds article discuss the origin of the unusual spelling). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:326F:ABC0:E6CE:8FFF:FE42:3D42 (talk) 16:42, 13 September 2013 (UTC)